March 2024

Beijing-backed cyberspies attacked 70+ orgs across 23 countries 2024-03-19 at 23:19 By Jessica Lyons Plus potential links to I-Soon, researchers say Chinese cyberspies have compromised at least 70 organizations, mostly government entities, and targeted more than 116 victims across the globe, according to security researchers.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original

Crypto scams more costly to the US than ransomware, feds say 2024-03-19 at 22:02 By Connor Jones Latest figures paint grim picture of how viciously the elderly are targeted The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) says investment fraud was the form of cybercrime that incurred the greatest financial loss for Americans last year.… This article

Nvidia: Why write code when you can string together a couple chat bots? 2024-03-19 at 21:17 By Tobias Mann GPU giant says NIM will eliminate dependency headaches for the low low cost of $4,500/year per GPU Nevermind using large language models (LLMs) to help write code, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that in the future,

Reddit gets a call from Nokia about patent infringement ahead of going public 2024-03-19 at 20:16 By Brandon Vigliarolo That’s a juicy-looking IPO you’ve got there. Be a shame if someone took a licensing bite Mere days from going public, Reddit is staring down a challenge from Nokia, which has accused the “front page of

Homeland Security will test out using genAI to train US immigration officers 2024-03-19 at 19:16 By Richard Speed It’s all about privacy, civil rights, civil liberties, ok? The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has an AI roadmap and a trio of test projects to deploy the tech, one of which aims to train immigration

APIs Drive the Majority of Internet Traffic and Cybercriminals are Taking Advantage 2024-03-19 at 19:16 By Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the connective tissue behind digital modernization, helping applications and databases exchange data more effectively. The State of API Security in 2024 Report from Imperva, a Thales company, found that the majority of internet traffic (71%) in

Firefox 124 brings more slick moves for Mac and Android 2024-03-19 at 18:32 By Liam Proven And you now get keyboard navigation in the built-in PDF reader The latest version of Firefox improves in areas that should help it fit in better on several categories of hardware.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

When life gives you Lemon, sack him 2024-03-19 at 17:32 By Richard Currie CNN veteran publishes Musk interview that got his X show canceled Comment  Last year, two high-profile American news anchors lost their jobs. This year, CNN’s Don Lemon joined Fox News’s Tucker Carlson with a new show on Elon Musk’s X.… This article

Swift enters safe mode over gyro issue while NASA preps patch to shake it off 2024-03-19 at 17:16 By Richard Speed Gamma-ray burst watcher almost two decades past use-by date NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has dropped into safe mode after one of the spacecraft’s three gyroscopes showed signs of degradation.… This article is an